The cuboidal structure made for storing valuable, natural and artificial things in secured manner is called as box. There are different shapes of boxes available ranging from small to large sizes.
The types of boxes are equipment boxes: Fuse box, Inhabited boxes: Luxury box, Police box, Signal box, Telephone box, Decorative boxes: Jewel box, Shoe box, Strong box, knife box, bible box. Box is made from different materials that of wood, cardboard, metal, plastic, and marble. Box made from wood has the tendency to get warped during the winter season.
Metal box is prone to corrosion from the amount of the moisture absorbed by it. Card board box possess medium strength and its durability is less. Plastic box has some advantages such as; there is no scope of corrosion, not affected by cold weather.
The drawbacks of plastic box is they melt away when they are exposed to direct heat, it breaks when impact strength is applied on it. Box created out of marble material is said to be marble Box. |
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